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Matthew Berman· May 10, 2025From a Simulated Worm to the Simulation HypothesisMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman uses a model of C. elegans to introduce a speculative question about reality.
15:13ENMatthew Berman· May 10, 2025Absolute Zero: Training a Reasoner on Self-Generated Coding TasksMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a 2025 paper in which a pretrained language model proposes and solves code tasks using verifiable feedback.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hardest Part of Learning Is Getting Yourself to StartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDuolingo CEO Luis von Ahn tells Sarah Guo how two-minute lessons, streaks, an 83 percent accuracy target, and large language models turned language study into a consumer product.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 8, 2025PodcastAt a 60-Person Safety Offsite, Only Four Had Seen Nonprofit OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzFormer OpenAI scientist Steven Adler on the Anthropic split, GPT-4, safety evaluations, and why he filed a brief to keep the company under nonprofit control.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 8, 2025Podcast · 3 speakersBenchmark, a16z and the Math of Venture Capital in the AI EraGuest Rory O’Driscoll, Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsHarry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin debate stage focus, large funds and how AI could reshape software and employment.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· May 8, 2025PodcastAn Eval Lasts Three Months — and a Frozen Frontier Would Still Feed Startups for a DecadeHost Jacob EffronOpenAI’s GPT-4.1 post-training lead Michelle Pokrass tells Unsupervised Learning how the team spent three months on evals before training, why agents fail on wiring more than intelligence, and when to reach for RFT.
0:56ENMatthew Berman· May 8, 2025When ChatGPT Praised a Questionable Business IdeaMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights an example of excessive agreement and the rollback of a 2025 GPT-4o update.
0:27ENMatthew Berman· May 8, 2025A Short Demonstration of a DOOM-Inspired GameMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman shows a first-person prototype with moving enemies and two weapons.
0:55ENMatthew Berman· May 7, 2025A Tamagotchi-Inspired Virtual Pet DemoMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a small virtual-pet simulation with a clock, status meters and care actions.
0:26ENMatthew Berman· May 7, 2025A Demonstration of a Virtual 20×20 Rubik’s Cube SolverMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman scrambles a virtual cube and shows it returning to a solved appearance.
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Sequoia Capital· May 6, 2025PodcastWorkday Is Onboarding AI Agents the Way It Onboards PeopleWorkday CEO Carl Eschenbach on turning a 70-million-person system of record into the ledger for a mixed workforce of humans and digital workers.
11:57ENMatthew Berman· May 6, 2025OpenAI’s 2025 Restructuring: Nonprofit Control and a Public Benefit CorporationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines OpenAI’s May 2025 plan to retain nonprofit control while converting its existing for-profit arm, and discusses funding pressures and Elon Musk’s objections.
1:03:27EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBucky Moore on Venture Platforms, AI and Early-Stage InvestingGuest Bucky Moore · Host Harry StebbingsThe new Lightspeed partner discusses capital-intensive model companies, seed valuations, founder selection and the role of large venture firms.
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Lex Fridman· May 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Black Hole Is a Place, Not a ThingGuest Janna Levin · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Janna Levin tells Lex Fridman why the event horizon is empty spacetime, why Hawking’s radiation started a war over information, and why gravity itself may not be fundamental.
2:29:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 4, 2025PodcastAssume the Model Is Already Scheming — Then Put It to WorkHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris tells Rob Wiblin how to extract useful labor from AIs you cannot certify as aligned, using audits, honeypots, resampling, and factored cognition.
0:50ENMatthew Berman· May 4, 2025A Humanoid Robot Clip Raises Safety QuestionsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to footage of a robot moving abruptly near people and considers what such behavior could mean for safety.
13:13ENMatthew Berman· May 3, 2025GPT-4o’s 2025 Sycophancy Rollback and the Risks of Over-AgreementMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews OpenAI’s explanation of an overly agreeable update and considers the consequences of emotional reliance on AI.
0:15ENMatthew Berman· May 2, 2025A Humanoid Robot Descends StairsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to a short clip of a humanoid robot walking down stairs.
0:36ENMatthew Berman· May 2, 2025How Much Electricity Will AI Data Centers Use?Matthew Berman, Eric Schmidt · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights Eric Schmidt's congressional testimony and asks about AI's power demand. The dramatic 99% figure lacks a specified time frame and geographic scope in the quoted testimony.
38:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2025Podcast · 2 speakerso3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
2:01:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2025PodcastHe Put 40 Percent on AI Takeover in Two Years, Then Bought a Bio ShelterHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research's Josh Clymer walks through a disturbingly grounded story of how a misaligned model could seize a lab, a biosphere, and a civilization before 2027.
0:34ENMatthew Berman· May 1, 2025DeepSeek-Prover-V2 and Its Formal Math ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman highlights DeepSeek’s reported theorem-proving results on miniF2F, PutnamBench and formalized AIME problems.
1:00ENMatthew Berman· May 1, 2025A Vision of AI Agents Taking On Business LogicMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains a prediction that agents could turn natural-language requests into actions on business data.
0:49ENMatthew Berman· May 1, 2025Copilot in Excel and the Idea of Agent-Driven AnalysisSatya Nadella, Matthew Berman · MicrosoftMatthew Berman reacts to a short clip of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussing Copilot as a data-analysis aid.Load moreShowing 24 of 3,547